Josh Mugele, who works at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville received the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 20, but nine days later, he had contracted the virus, Business Insider reported.

Eduardo Munoz-Pool/Getty Images Josh Mugele, an emergency-room doctor in Georgia, tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Tuesday. Mugele received his first dose of Pfizer and BioNTech's ...

Josh Mugele worked the night shift on Christmas. Though he had been tending to coronavirus patients since the start of the pandemic, his Georgia hospital was stretched to capacity like never before.